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New HDD

Altamira

Member
Hi.

Need your help buying a new HDD. Need something like this:

- External Hard Drive
- For Small Office/business
- Portable
- Reliable and Secure from critical data
- Mainly for Text Documents
- To be used as the main storage device
- Dont need much storage capacity since it will be mainly for OpenOffice work
- Below 70 Dollars

Any sugestions?

Thank you
 
A 64GB USB thumb drive is all that could qualify for all of those. The Sandisk Extreme USB 3.0 are now under $70 for 64GB (59GiB usable). Portable HDD and reliability simply do not go together.
 
Go to Newegg and identify a five star full retail boxed HDD. (last I looked NE still sells older pre-flood 250GB and 160GB HDDs rating five stars.)

Put the drive in a five star rated USB enclosure (also rated single USB cable need provides both power and data - no "Y" cable required) and you should be good to go.

Old external IOMEGA drives are great too.

Ive got many many 2.5" drives (IOMEGA, STORIX and ones Ive built/assembled myself to use for everyday work, leisure activities as well as backup. In the many years of use, I have never lost one even though once in a while one gets accidentally dropped (ie, slid) off the top of a computer tower even while running !!! Some of these drives have already logged zillions of running hours too.
 
But the Sandisk is internal SSD right?

The Sandisk Extreme USB 3.0 is a USB stick... NOT a SSD per se, yes, it uses NAND like a SSD, but you don't need a external power source like a SSD would need.

And, it is always better to have multiple copies of critical data, since *anything* can fail.
 
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